National Accessibility Week: Oakville charity making boating accessible for all

It’s National Accessibility Week — a time to celebrate and promote the valuable contributions and leadership of people with disabilities in Canada. In Oakville, we look at the story of a non-profit that provides recreational boating to people who otherwise wouldn’t be able to be out on the water. A matter that’s quite personal to the charity’s founder, Stephen Cull. “Boats aren’t made for someone in a wheelchair,” said Cull, the president of CharterAbility. Cull broke his neck tobogganing when he was 28 years old. While that accident left him paralyzed from the chest down, it didn’t stop him. He noticed there was a need to provide recreational boating for people with disabilities, so he founded CharterAbility, a registered non-profit charity.